Seventeen years ago, something came between a group of university friends. This particular weekend though they are reunited as one of the group, Alfred, has bought an old house in their university town. He renovated it into The Hitchcock Hotel, a homage to his favourite director, which is now celebrating its first anniversary.
Graeme Macrae Burnet’s A Case of Matricide is a beautifully written noir novel.
A brilliant novel that ensured I would read anything Tom Ryan decides to write.
Set in 1962 and 1963, this tale starts and ends on a bridge, literally and metaphorically.
Canadian detective fiction is a genre that punches well above its weight
The premise is delicious. Have a chance to WIN a copy of Secrets in the Water on our Patreon
The idea that anyone could be the killer is at the centre of To Our Graves, the newest novel from Paul Nicholas Mason.
The daughter finds her mother’s notebook, sewn into her pillow, and begins to investigate a figure from her revolutionary past: a man named Paul Polotsky, who lived in Paris in the 1950s. Back in Paris, she manages to track him down and begins to follow him, her life narrowing on this sole focus. What, exactly, was the relationship between her mother and Polotsky?
A fantastic look at a private investigator life. Filled with mishaps and mayhem, this road to heaven is certainly littered with good intentions, and creative inventions of stories, history, and glimpses of character.
In 1962, a Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq family travels to Maine, where they have gone for many years to spend the summer picking berries. That year there are five children, the youngest, Ruthie, just four years old. One day, Ruthie and six-year-old Joe go off together to eat their lunch. Joe, distracted by something, leaves his sister on her own, and Ruthie goes missing.
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing author John MacLachlan Gray about his most recent book, Mr. Good-Evening, the third book in his Raincoast Noir series.
The subtitle of Who By Fire, “A Dame Polara Mystery,” might conjure in the reader’s mind a dowager member of the aristocracy solving crimes in a cozy manner across the English countryside, circa 1920. The hero of Greg Rhyno’s new novel is nothing like that, and the story is definitely not cozy.
A fan of dark mysteries, especially when they have good family characters with depth and good conflict, I was eager to dive in.
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